Professor Pork says : “It’s a fine line, I know. Oink. But as house music continues it’s return journey from innovation back into pure functionality (discuss somewhere else, pls), it’s been left to the online production world to come up with the goods – Unfortunately their tendancy to promote and duplicate musical memes as quickly as possible for fear of seeming out of touch has left them with five hundred remakes of every half-realised idea, and no one that has the time nor the inclination to sift and sort through. Snort. You could make your own variation in the time it takes to listen to everyone else’s. See what you’ve done, Kleptone? Underground, overground, now everyone’s wombling free, you dig?”

Eric says: “Good for them, I say. Kudos to Fake Blood though, for having the decency to avoid repeating the same sounds across every tune he makes, and to Duke Dumont and Funkanomics for their persistance of vision in the face of fashion.”

[…] Just downloaded the new tracks by the Kleptones, condensing the best of 2008 into five tracks (available on their blog – go here for no. 1, no. 2, no. 3, no. 4, or no. 5). The tracks range from 30 minutes up to nearly 55 minutes and, from the limited amount of listening I have done today, they do provide a good round-up of 2008. If you want to have a track list for each one, see the pages for each track. […]